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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> >> The Matrix is just the prison where they put the humans. If Smith takes
> >> over that prison... so what? Why would the Architect care?
> >
> > They built the enormous life simulator, and it's about to get destroyed,
> > and the billions of humans with it. Why would the Architect care?
> >
> > The Matrix exists for a reason, and it's about to get destroyed.
> Ah, well, if Smith is actually going to *destroy* the Matrix rather than
> just take control of it... yes, that would be bad.
You mean:
The Architect: "Ah, he is only going to take control of it, not destroy it?
Well, then it's all ok, I should just relax and not worry about a thing."
And that would make sense to you?
> >>>> Seriously, it looks like "OMG, this film was so popular! We MUST make a
> >>>> sequal! Hey, why not make it a trilogy?"
> >>> Except that isn't how it happened; they planned to do 3 from the start,
> >>> AFAICR.
> >
> >> Yeah, that's puzzling.
> >
> > It's puzzling that they wanted to make a trilogy?
> No, it's puzzling that there's such a big variation in quality.
I see no variation in quality.
Or is your definition of "quality" whether you understand the plot or not?
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > You are doing a good job at making it sound like you have decided that
> > since you didn't like it the first time, you will never give it a second
> > chance and try to understand it better so that, maybe, you could perhaps
> > start liking it in retrospect. In other words, "I hate it, and I will
> > always hate it no matter what you say; I refuse to like it".
> You realise I've watched it several times, right?
> It contains all the right stuff. It's just... not entertaining. Until I
> watched this review, I couldn't really put my finger on why. Now I have
> a clearer idea.
The review wasn't about The Matrix.
> I didn't expect to enjoy the original film, but I did. The trailer for
> the sequal looked great...
How hard is it to write "sequel"?
> > If you decide that you will never like it, that's fine. It's your
> > prerogative. However, you shouldn't bash the film if you don't understand
> > it.
> Right. Because it's not a requirement for a good film to actually make
> sense.
> Oh, wait... yes it is.
You consider yourself the absolute measurement of whether a movie makes
sense or not?
If the movie makes sense to me, that's completely inconsequential? The
movie is still not good because it doesn't make sense to *you*?
> >> I'm told there are people who actually *liked* the X-Files, for example.
> >> I cannot begin to imagine why, but apparently some people really liked
> >> it. Good for them...
> >
> > Do you really think they would have got money for 9 whole seasons if
> > people didn't like it?
> I repeat: "apparently some people really liked it". It seems readily
> apparent to me that this is true, even if I have no idea *why* it's true.
Maybe you simply refuse to understand why, again because of some odd
principle of yours.
How hard is it to say "I didn't like it, but I understand why someone
else would" (and really mean it)?
> > I don't find it cryptic at all. It's quite simple and straightforward.
> Fair enough. You're entitled to your opinion.
Is that a statement that you outright refuse to even try to make sense
of the plot? That someone else understanding it is just "an opinion"?
> > I enjoy movies which need some thinking.
> I don't mind films that require some thinking.
You are making a good job at giving the opposite impression.
> (Certain film producers
> seem to believe any film which isn't 100% blindingly obvious won't be
> popular - presumably because the audience are idiots.) What I detest is
> films which deliberately don't tell you what happened. Some people
> apparently think it's cool to make a movie where at the end the audience
> is like "So... was it all a dream after all? Or did he really save the
> world?" I really hate that.
But you surely understand why some people like for there to be gaps to
be filled by deduction?
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>>>> Do I have to go find a still from the movie just to prove a point?
>>> Yes, show me even a single one from the bunch which looks less detailed than a
>>> videogame character in real-time.
>> Oh how tedious...
>
> BS that. You always back off from your statements when confronted with straight
> reasoning.
Right. So I'm going to load up the DVD, figure out how to take
screenshots from the film, and shuffle back and forward to the right
part of the movie to try to find a single still frame which illustrates
the point I'm trying to make, just because one random guy on the
Internet accuses me of being a liar?
...or I could just let you continue thinking I'm a liar, and go do
something more productive.
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>> Ah, well, if Smith is actually going to *destroy* the Matrix rather than
>> just take control of it... yes, that would be bad.
>
> You mean:
>
> The Architect: "Ah, he is only going to take control of it, not destroy it?
> Well, then it's all ok, I should just relax and not worry about a thing."
>
> And that would make sense to you?
It's not clear to me that Smith has the *ability* to destroy the Matrix
itself. If he does, then clearly that's a problem. (And I guess being
able to transcend the Matrix itself and take control of people outside
it implies that maybe he can...)
>> No, it's puzzling that there's such a big variation in quality.
>
> I see no variation in quality.
>
> Or is your definition of "quality" whether you understand the plot or not?
Well, understanding the plot is kind of prerequisit to enjoying the
film. But I could also mention cut density, for example.
In the first film, how long does Neo spend waiting to see the Oracle?
The whole journey there, the waiting room, etc. They could have cut that
much shorter and make the fight scenes in other parts of the movie
longer. But they didn't.
In the following two films, they did. (How many seconds does Neo spend
at the deserted apartment saying "where are you?") It had the feel of
"OK, how many fight scenes can we cram in?"
Don't get my wrong - some of the fight scenes in the sequals are *even
better* than in the original. You *want* to like it... but the rest of
the film is so drab, it's kind of hard to.
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>> It contains all the right stuff. It's just... not entertaining. Until I
>> watched this review, I couldn't really put my finger on why. Now I have
>> a clearer idea.
>
> The review wasn't about The Matrix.
No. But it makes some interesting points about what makes a film work,
and what makes a film not work.
>> I didn't expect to enjoy the original film, but I did. The trailer for
>> the sequal looked great...
>
> How hard is it to write "sequel"?
How hard is it for you to get off my case? I *know* I can't spell for
toffee. I didn't even learn to read until I was about 13 or something.
I've always been rubbish at it. It's not like I can magically fix it in
20 minutes.
>> Right. Because it's not a requirement for a good film to actually make
>> sense.
>
>> Oh, wait... yes it is.
>
> You consider yourself the absolute measurement of whether a movie makes
> sense or not?
Last time I checked, I'm not the only person claiming the film wasn't
very good. (Although admittedly that's not an infalible measurement
either...)
>> I repeat: "apparently some people really liked it". It seems readily
>> apparent to me that this is true, even if I have no idea *why* it's true.
>
> Maybe you simply refuse to understand why, again because of some odd
> principle of yours.
>
> How hard is it to say "I didn't like it, but I understand why someone
> else would" (and really mean it)?
I just meant that I'm not sure what it is about it that made other
people enjoy it. Clearly there was something, but I don't know what that
something was.
>> I don't mind films that require some thinking.
>
> You are making a good job at giving the opposite impression.
Right, because (say) Back To The Future doesn't require any thinking at
all. That must be why I like it so much. :-)
> But you surely understand why some people like for there to be gaps to
> be filled by deduction?
There's deduction, and there's guessing.
But sure, different people like different things. I was just saying what
*I* happen to like.
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > How hard is it to write "sequel"?
> How hard is it for you to get off my case? I *know* I can't spell for
> toffee.
At this point it feels like you are doing it deliberately.
If you have learned to write words like "how" and "hard", it should be
quite easy to also learn to write words like "sequel". It's not that
difficult.
> I didn't even learn to read until I was about 13 or something.
> I've always been rubbish at it. It's not like I can magically fix it in
> 20 minutes.
Start one word at a time. "Sequel" is as good as any.
> >> I don't mind films that require some thinking.
> >
> > You are making a good job at giving the opposite impression.
> Right, because (say) Back To The Future doesn't require any thinking at
> all. That must be why I like it so much. :-)
I don't see much to be deduced in that movie. It's pretty straightforward.
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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Start one word at a time. "Sequel" is as good as any.
It's not like *I* would always write perfect English, but at least I'm
willing to learn from my mistakes.
For instance, for a long time I wrote "piratism" until someone pointe out
to me that it's actually "piracy" (the former could be classified as
Finglish). Likewise for a very long time I wrote sentences in the form
"I wonder what does this do", when the better way of writing it is
"I wonder what this does".
One of the latest mistakes I have noticed is that I have been writing
for years "truely" when the proper word is "truly". Another is that I have
been writing "substraction" instead of "subtraction" (the former I have
"mislearned" from Spanish).
Oh, and the latest one has been using "cursive" instead of "italic"
(again, Finglish).
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:24:53 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>
>> This is pretty close to what someone recently wrote as a review of
>> Avatar. After a brief case of, "Wow, there are vines hanging all over
>> the place.", you forget that you are looking at something CG at all. The
>> problem, as he pointed out, is that the next guy to use what made it
>> amazing will be used to make something that **won't** spend time on the
>> story, and *will* scream CG because of it. It will be all about, "See,
>> we can do this level of CG too!", and not about the story.
>
> Interesting. I'm somewhat apprehensive about Avatar myself; my wife's
> got friends who are disabled, and they're quite unhappy about one of the
> central the ideas behind the film being that if you're disabled, you
> couldn't possibly live a normal life and the pinnacle of hope is that you
> could do something that made you not be disabled.
>
> Needless to say, my wife's friends who are disabled are fiercely
> independent and find that premise to be quite offensive.
>
> I may rent it on Netflix once just to see the effects, but I don't have
> high hopes for the story.
>
> Jim
Ugh.. Haven't even seen the film, but they *think* that because it
offers someone that wants his problem fixed a solution, its
anti-disability? Have I got that right? Why is it that some people, if
a) they are born with one, or b) suffer one, but don't want it fixed,
treat people offering solutions as though they are out to burn down
their church, and the people that actually take up the offer as though
they had betrayed the holy religion of disability, and need to be
excommunicated. They have such massive chips on their shoulders that
they would rather rob someone who *was*, for example, once sighted, of a
chance to see again, than actually find themselves confronted with
someone suggesting, "Don't you ever wonder what it would be like *to* see?"
With all respect to your wife's friends, some of these people are worse
assholes to "normal" people, than normal people have ever been to them,
and its a damn movie, in which the character *wanted* to have the
choice, as a means to work on the front lines, not some frakking
bunch of scientists picking people with missing legs out of a hospital
wards and beaming them into blue aliens without their bloody permission
or request. Not every attempt to solve basic malfunctions in the human
body is a conspiracy to destroy the "specialness" of people who, for
what ever reason, develop a damn stupid chip on their shoulder about not
wanting to even have the option, because it makes them feel somehow
better to be part of a group that where all mistreated by idiots years
earlier, as a result of their differences.
Yes, there are some that think they *need* fixing. But that just proves
that non-disabled people can be assholes too, not that the ones
protesting someone *choosing* to deny the holy writ of the disabled are
apostates for opting to try the alternative, especially of they are,
"*gasp*", restoring something they already had, not being asked to be
given sight, after being born without it, or some other situation, where
they *might* have a point about it being offensive to try to even offer it.
This is almost as absurd, forgive me saying so, as the protesters
against the film because they didn't pick **it** as some sort of soup
box for gay love stories, but went with what *most* other films always
have, and made the love interests male and female. Its just bloody
ridiculous.
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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> How hard is it to write "sequel"?
>
>> How hard is it for you to get off my case? I *know* I can't spell for
>> toffee.
>
> At this point it feels like you are doing it deliberately.
>
> If you have learned to write words like "how" and "hard", it should be
> quite easy to also learn to write words like "sequel". It's not that
> difficult.
>
>> I didn't even learn to read until I was about 13 or something.
>> I've always been rubbish at it. It's not like I can magically fix it in
>> 20 minutes.
>
> Start one word at a time. "Sequel" is as good as any.
>
there are still lots of words I forget how to spell even when I make a
point of trying to learn them, although I do take the trouble to use a
spell checker. (Hint to Andrew :P)
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> there are still lots of words I forget how to spell even when I make a
> point of trying to learn them, although I do take the trouble to use a
> spell checker. (Hint to Andrew :P)
Hey, if you can tell me how to make Thunderbird's spellchecker actually
work, I'm all ears.
(You'd *think* that just installing the right dictionary and turning on
spell checking would do it... but apparently not.)
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