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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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Armageddon
Godzilla (90s)
Transformers movies
Recent DC comics movies
Ghostbusters remake
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Incredible.
I thought it was an inspired choice to be as much a remake of their animated classic as Kipling's tale. Even so, this was an intense film. There was a lot more tension here than in The Force Awakens (compared only as it's another recent Disney remake). Favreau and Co. killed it.
I strongly recommend checking this out in the theaters.
Beauty and the Beast should be a treat.
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None of us had ever played the game before and knew next to nothing about the universe except that there are orcs... and men. And that was enough, though the movie introduces a dizzying amount of locations and characters in the first 10 minutes, each sounding more like invented fantasy satire than the one before. Soon we were whispering jabs and barbs at the movie, which was pretty funny considering my 10 year old had some of the best zingers.
The lead human is the guy from the Viking TV show. He was a bright spot in the film for me because he basically played the character from Viking, but with a bit less of the mania. The other thing that was good, which my 13-year old pointed out was that the movie, uh... humanizes(?) the orcs, instead of using them as hero fodder.
The silliest part was, for me, a bargain-basement council of Elrond, with emotionally guarded elves and obstinate dwarves, which some how looked even more inbred than the dwarves from LOTR and The Hobbit.
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An Honest Liar is about the Amazing Randi, a legendary magician who became known for debunking faith healers, psychics, and people like Uri Geller. There is a lot of great footage with him on TV shows, basically following Geller around and calling him out for his deception. I took notes with some of Randi's quotes: "People think they believe what they choose to believe. They don't. They believe what they need to believe. They would rather accept what some charismatic character tells them than really think about what the truth might be. They would rather have the romance and the lies... No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived."
Kumare is really interesting. A guy from New Jersey decides to become a mystic yogi, and discovers that people are willing to follow him, even though everything he is teaching them is made-up bullshit, in essence telling everyone the whole time that he is a fake and that it's all an illusion (but said in a way that sounds like it is some kind of mystical secret). And it develops and ends in a way that is pretty illuminating, I think, both for the guy and his followers.
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I haven't seen Animal House or Caddyshack in years, so it's totally possible I wouldn't find them all that great either.
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Grudunza wrote: I am in the process of transitioning out of my religion, and out of religion, entirely (I would now consider myself a hopeful agnostic, or something to that effect). A big part of that has been realizing how what I had been seeking was one thing... and the construct of the religion another. The former was based on a genuine desire and perhaps need, and the latter fulfilling that need to an extent but also based on some fraud and deception and ultimately being a facade (as I see it now).
I am very pleased to see this and I wish you well in your rejection of religion. Walking away from a culture you have grown up with is a difficult thing to do at the best of times, so I offer my full support.
Randi is very good in his dismantling of irrational belief systems. I would recommend Michael Shermer and his magazine Skeptic, which you can get electronically. This is not so much anti religion but more anti woo woo science and questions many diet/food guru advice as well as many other topics. Not really a popular magazine, and can be quite dense, but an excellent resource.
Christopher Hitchens is great on religion. Anything you can pick up from him will help.
Julia Sweeny's Letting go of God as a TED talk is also good.
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ThirstyMan wrote: questions many diet/food guru advice.
Can you provide some examples of bad diet/food guru advice he addresses?
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Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: After my wife and I realized that neither of us had seen the highly acclaimed Caddyshack we watched it and didn't think much of it.
Caddyshack is the '27 Yankees of comedy. Knight, Chase, Dangerfield, and Murray are a Murderer's Row of comedians, all performing at their peak. If I had to make a list of my Most Quoted Pop Culture References, Caddyshack is probably #3 (behind Simpsons and Star Wars).
That being said ... Caddyshack does suffer from what I call the "Danny Noonan Problem." Danny Noonan is a terrible protagonist. But dammit, I love that movie anyway.
Now, in the immortal words of Judge Smails: "Don't you people have HOMES?!?"
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Mr. White wrote:
ThirstyMan wrote: questions many diet/food guru advice.
Can you provide some examples of bad diet/food guru advice he addresses?
Skeptic has dealt with a number of these issues.
Issue 19.4 was dedicated to Diet Myths (Food Myths: What Science knows and what it doesn't know, Decoding food labels, Evolution, Diet and Chronic Disease). There is a regular column by Harriet Hall MD which is usually excellent.
Issue 10.4 dealt with The Atkins Diet and other diet fads.
On the non diet front:
9/11 truthers exposed. Creationist Muslim thinkers. Artificial Intelligence. Vaccines and Autism. Historical revisionism. Scientology. 50 yrs of conspiracy theories. Myths on Terrorism. Why we fall for cons. The multiverse. Alternative cancer cures.
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Shellhead wrote: I was underwhelmed by Caddyshack when I saw it in the theater. It was surprising to me that it became a cultural phenomenon. Porky's was a very stupid movie. Cannonball Run was just a smug star cast phoning it in. But I'm surprised that you disliked Animal House. It might not be a great movie, but there were so many good moments.
Joebot wrote: If I had to make a list of my Most Quoted Pop Culture References, Caddyshack is probably #3 (behind Simpsons and Star Wars).
Animal House is interesting and is probably the best of the bunch but why we didn't enjoy it relates to Joebot's post. It is by far the most quoted/referenced movie of this bunch, so pretty much every scene we had seen before somewhere else, and it is hard to find something funny when you have already seen it parodied/referenced. I had the same reaction to The Shining when I first saw it 15 years ago, and it took a couple of viewings to get over that and see it for itself without the references (luckily I was writing an essay on it so was forced to watch it multiple times). Next up when I get my hands on copies will be Risky Business and then Class (I read a parody of Class in Mad Magazine as a 10 year old so have always been intrigued).
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