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People get lost in the middle of nowhere, knife wielding masked killers... never seen that before. Must be great.
Virtue signaling. They grow up and discover that (Jewish) money don't stink.
Explain it. Explain to me how "one dimensional proton" reflects light, because "it has a field". Or explain any other scientific mumbo-jumbo of your choosing.
Fury Road 9/10
Mad Max 8/10
The others I watched too long ago, but will update when I watch them again.
Coppola is not known for that type of movies, but I like "the last days of Rome" vibe. I hope is good.
Yeah, kids are know to do these attacks not only in USA. But in Moranis' case the attacker was 30 something and Buscemi's has grey beard.
Many of those recent low-budget sci-fi movies do play out like overly extended "Outer Limits" episodes and I'm not a fan of that. However, I can't put "The Vast of Night" in the same category, because:
1. It has good production values and it is not the typical "mom and pop" thing with home video flavor.
2. It is self-aware of being like an episode from an old sci-fi TV show.
3. The excellent writing did not make it feel forcibly extended to 90 minutes.
But I can agree that if one wishes, it can be rewritten as a 50 minutes episode without losing much. And I'm not sure that film is the best media for this story, it looks like more suitable for a podcast or radio or theatre, because visuals don't add anything (though the long shots were cool) and the accent is on the dialogue. The only part in the script I didn't like is the switch-board operator leaving her post in state of emergency. Don't know why the writer wanted to keep the two main characters together.
Kudos to the actress Sierra McCormick. I really thought she is a teen girl.
She is actually pretty good in this, though I can't remember seeing her in anything else. IMDb history shows that I watched her in "Panic Room" and "Into The Wild", but that was ages ago. Surely I'm not going to watch Twilight.
I liked it too, but the second half is somewhat uninspired and dragging, and the sexual content felt a bit edgy. Nice music, nice visuals, Kristen Stewart is awesome, though I'm somewhat tired of these retro throwbacks in cinema and everything else.
She didn't. It is just how they showed it. They tried to put some arty-fartsy magical realism or something. Don't bother yourself over it.
I finished it. It is not a brain what they transferred, but a "sophon" - they unfolded a proton from 11 to 3 dimension, which made is HUUGE and used spaceships to print circuit over it and then folded it back and shoot it toward Earth to disrupt human science. It was now a "sophon" - an intelligent proton. All this goes on for like 20 pages, filled with non-sensical scientific word salad.
Another point that impressed me - the author suggests that religious thinking and environmentalism go against technological progress and they are part of alien's strategy to disrupt human science. While I'm not big on environmentalism, and even less religious, it bothers me, because it goes against the evidence.
So much about this "award winning hard science fiction book".
Strong Northern European genes. It is not for everybody.
The Second American Civil War would be fought on Twitter. I predict minor battles on moviechat too. Who knows, maybe the future Ulysses Grant is among us, on this very board.
I haven't turned it off, but I was surprised to find that I already watched it and gave it 4/10. I don't remember a thing about it! This speaks alone... This time I will give it 5, because I appreciated the detailed and realistic sets and the overall technicalities. But in reality, a human mission to Europa is highly unlikely because of the brutal levels of radiation, let alone digging thru 20km of ice just like that.
The problem with the movie is the boring story which ultimately is not realistic at all. Trying to get us excited by panicking an astronaut because he saw some lights is forced and not working. They could have put there Cthulhu and some space zombies to make it more exciting.
Putin choose USA as an enemy. He declared it at the Munich conference in 2007. People love to refer to this speech, mostly lies and delusions that aged badly in the light of the events since then. Today the speech could be as well called "Don't look at what I'm doing, listen to what I'm saying". The only point I agree with him is his critique of USA ignoring international laws bypassing UN, and also that having a single idea what the would order should be like is bad for everybody. We are seeing it now how this plays out in Gaza.
I'm an American.
<i>So is Snowden</i>
Ukraine has never been an ally of ours and they're not in NATO.
<i>It is not, but the war in 2014 was provoked because Ukraine wanted to move away from Russia toward EU and NATO.</i>
It's not our problem
<i>No, it is your problem. Your country's stature in the world, and the values it stands behind, are directly being challenged. Here we are talking about the world order, the one that was created after WW2 and GREATLY benefited YOUR country</i>
We can't keep running around the world playing cop.
<i>Financially maybe not for long. But considering that USA's budget deficit for 2023 is 1.7 TRILLIONS dollar, and the military spending is 900 billions, the support of Ukraine would be barely visible on the books. Most money actually end up in American (and allied countries') arms production.</i>
Ukraine has done nothing to deserve all the billions we've poured down that sinkhole.
<i>They do it every day fighting YOUR enemies.</i>
Time for both sides to negotiate.
<i>Knowing Russian mentality, and the Ukrainian is likely no different, this won't be happening soon. Looks like we will have a stalemate. Means, they need a lot of artillery shells.</i>
Maybe for a niche audience, like what happened with b-movies later. No so much for mainstream movies, because back then people, especially women, would consider such movies indecent.
I'm going thru reviews of the book and trying to understand what people like in it, because to me the book looks pretty stupid. People point out to few cool ideas, although some of them are pure fantasy obfuscated in scientific terms to make it look plausible ("Oh, my reader, you are too dumb to understand my super smart book, so you better like it to look like a smart chap"). For me cool ideas don't count if the book taken as a whole is lame, but at the same time trying hard to be grand.
Civ emerging in extreme conditions is one of those interesting ideas. My understanding is that sometimes stable eras lasted long enough, or the bad eras were not catastrophically bad, and that allowed the aliens to understand their predicament and try to solve it. We don't really know how much time is needed for a scientific civilization to emerge from primordial soup, because we have only one example. Till 65 millions years ago things were at a dead end, but then things rapidly (in cosmic scale) changed.
As it is situated in the book, the stasis of which this creatures are capable won't help in the most extreme conditions. Actually the planet will be either destroyed in short order or beaten up so badly that even a slug won't evolve. In reality, such planet, if survives, it would lose its water and atmosphere and its surface will be defaced by the volcanic activity caused by the ever changing pull and twist of the three suns. And if I want to be nitpicky, Alpha Centauri is nothing like that and till now there are no triple body problem stars found - either they star formation process leads to stable orbits or one of the stars gets quickly destroyed. It is worse, because if aliens were in Alpha, the would know about us and no need to send signals. Even with our current tech we are aware of planets in Alpha, some potentially habitable. Of course, the author put the aliens there so that the characters can communicate with them. It is this much contrived and I hate it.
The brain must be an invention of the TV show. I'm like 50 pages before the end of the book and can't believe how low is its popularity/dumbness ratio. In the book the aliens shot two protons (yes, two protons) and somehow hacked Earth and stopped scientific progress. I don't want to get into charging particles navigating between magnetic fields of starts and planets, because the idea of "hacking Earth with two protons" is so preposterous that doesn't deserve to get deeper into it. After this fact is revealed in the book, two characters are discussing how this this could be possible and one of them concludes the discussion with "If I tell you, you won't sleep all night". wtf.
I enjoy dumb fun, but the book is just dumb, while at the same time wants to be taken seriously and constantly bombards the reader with shallow scientific mumbo-jumbo and the perils of the Chinese Cultural devolution.
EDIT: I'm reading reviews of the book and they are talking about some neural network, so I suspect that this is the "brain" they transferred. It is a cool idea and there few others like it in the book, but everything is super contrived and makes no sense as a whole.
Fake Jewish noses should be banned. It is the Jewish equivalent of blackface. It is racist.