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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>> Having said that, whether I play Chess or Go, the computer always beats
>> me, every single time. [Except that one time I found an algorithmic flaw
>> in the AI for Go. But that hardly seems like "winning"...]
>
> Computer go is much easier to beat than computer chess. That's because
> go cannot be played so well with brute-force searching.
Either way, I still get comprehensively thrashed every single time. :-(
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Tim Attwood wrote:
>> Can you name me one good full length movie *about* math?
>
> Good Will Hunting?
Math had little to do with it. It's about a young person who is
brilliant and has personal issues. Had he been a brilliant artist, the
story would still be the same.
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Tim Attwood wrote:
> I couldn't really follow Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it's
> probably the translation thing, never was sure why that could
> win any awards. Squatting director, hidden plot.
I really liked it. Don't recall it being at all obfuscated. Simple
story - nothing really hidden.
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"Warp" wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> I've seen quite a few, but I try to stay away from the bad ones.
>
> That's called "prejudice".
Nice illustration that prejudice can be a useful thing.
You could go selecting movies to see completely at random and only rarely
see one that you actually like, or you can use your best judgment to sort
away the ones you think you won't enjoy.
Is judging a movie you haven't seen a random shot in the dark? Of course
not. I think most people have seen movies they didn't want to see very much
because it was together with someone else who wanted to see it. In those
situation you most often find that you were right about your initial
prejudice and only very rarely is a movie you didn't think was good actually
a positive surprise. At least in my experience.
Rune
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Rune <aut### [at] runevisioncom> wrote:
> Nice illustration that prejudice can be a useful thing.
> You could go selecting movies to see completely at random and only rarely
> see one that you actually like, or you can use your best judgment to sort
> away the ones you think you won't enjoy.
I have learned to not to judge a book by its cover. Or, in this case,
a movie.
I have been surprised in both directions. Movies which I was almost
certain would be mediocre (but I didn't have anything better to do than
to watch them) have surprised me for being unexpectedly enjoyable. Also
many movies which I was rather sure I would like have been disappointments.
It's just not possible to know in advance.
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Warp wrote:
> Tom Galvin <tom### [at] impnospamorg> wrote:
>> If you include the bonus features, it like 3 Days of stuff. The
>> commentary from the hobbit actors was priceless.
>
> I have yet to see the movies in commentary mode (each movie has, IIRC,
> at least 3 commentary tracks).
>
They're well worth making the time to watch.
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Tim Attwood wrote:
>> While I was stationed in Iceland, I did a business trip to the town of
>> Thorshofn, and there I stayed at a very nice bed and breakfast. One night
>> there was film on TV called "The Night is Dark on the Shores of the
>> Baltic" or something like that. The movie was originally in Russian, and
>> it had Icelandic subtitles. Having only the very slightest grasp of
>> either language, the movie was a total mystery to me.
>>
>> The next day I was chatting with some Icelanders at a radar site that was
>> the purpose of my visit, and I mentioned it to them. They replied that
>> the subtitles didn't help; the movie was still inscrutable.
>
> I couldn't really follow Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it's
> probably the translation thing, never was sure why that could
> win any awards. Squatting director, hidden plot.
Really? I loved it. One of the best martial arts movies I've ever
seen, in fact.
The DVD has an English language track on it; maybe watching that would
make it easier for you. For me, seeing the actors mouths not match the
words come out is far more jarring than reading subtitles. I'm more
than willing to read what they're saying in order to have the spoken
dialog fit how their mouths move.
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Warp wrote:
> It's just not possible to know in advance.
Not entirely, but it IS possible to make an educated guess. After all,
that's why we have trailers and reviews.
Of course, I use reviews the opposite way that most people do... I find
that many critics look down on films I enjoy, and praise films that I
find to be trash.
But still, if you're lucky enough to see two or three trailers for a
movie, you can usually get a good idea of what the "feel" of the movie
is, which often is more important than other details anyway.
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>> I couldn't really follow Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it's
>> probably the translation thing, never was sure why that could
>> win any awards. Squatting director, hidden plot.
>
> Really? I loved it. One of the best martial arts movies I've ever seen,
> in fact.
>
> The DVD has an English language track on it; maybe watching that would
> make it easier for you. For me, seeing the actors mouths not match the
> words come out is far more jarring than reading subtitles. I'm more than
> willing to read what they're saying in order to have the spoken dialog fit
> how their mouths move.
>
She flies in one scene, and falls to her death in the next,
the whole film is contradictory... an excuse for artsy fight
scenes.
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Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> But still, if you're lucky enough to see two or three trailers for a
> movie
... you have already seen the movie, so there's really no need to watch
it again. That's my opinion.
There aren't many things I detest more about movies than trailers.
They spoil way too much.
Just today there was a good example. I went to see a movie in the theater,
and before it they showed the trailer for the new National Treasure movie,
and it spoiled an incredible amount of the contents of the movie. And mind
you, I wasn't *watching* anything of it.
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