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Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 hours ago
Replies: 17
How many scenes do you remember in a movie?
Posted By Corax
A typical film? A typical viewing? A typical film...

A typical film? A typical viewing? A typical film is a disposable consumer product. In terms of memory, I tend to treat it as a disposable consumer product.

It's like popular music. I couldn't...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 53
Movies everyone seems to love that you do not get?
Posted By Corax
Re: Movies everyone seems to love that you do not get?

Hot take thread, eh?

OK,

The Crow sucks

T1 > T2

The Chiefs are frauds protected by refballl
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
Re: The BIGFOOT Thread

The Cave (2005) and The Descent (2005) feature cave-dwelling threats. Perhaps it's hard for us to believe that there are monsters running around modern forests, but a sealed-off cave somewhere......
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
My local shoe store not only has evidence of a...

My local shoe store not only has evidence of a big foot, but creatures with two big feet. Checkmate, skeptics.
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
An example like this can be quite useful and...

An example like this can be quite useful and illuminating. Sometimes a paradigm case of the preposterous offers us a stress test for our "good reasons."
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 2 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
Lee created a work more subtle than his own...

Lee created a work more subtle than his own stance? Sure, I can buy that. That's the danger of a subtle rhetorical strategy, you lose control over the interpretation as you invite more people in.
...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
Dave Chappelle did it better tho...

Dave Chappelle did it better tho...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
Re: Quentin vs. Spike

I offer the following for your consideration (https://daily.jstor.org/forming-a-critical-sense-of-race-with-spike-lees-do-the-right-thing/). Per the article, Lee seems to see Sal as racist where...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
There is a sort of faux-refutation, a sort of...

There is a sort of faux-refutation, a sort of informal fallacy, I've discovered which we might call the, "Yeah, I've head that before" fallacy. I remember being at a conference, decades ago,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 27
Have you ever watched a Hallmark movie?
Posted By Corax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLGxJfMCCsQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLGxJfMCCsQ
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
I am solidly with QT up to and including Jackie...

I am solidly with QT up to and including Jackie Brown. I tuned out when he got into his revenge-quest movie era. I am with King up to 1978 or 1979.
Replies: 9
Affleck on AI and Hollywood
Posted By Corax
He does a good job of regurgitating...

He does a good job of regurgitating techno-business wisdom on the topic.

"AI is a craftsman, at best." -- this is an admission that every craftsman's job is at risk. So, just a majority of labor...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
Re: Quentin vs. Spike

A character named "Senor Love Daddy" can he heard on the radio in Mo Better Blues and Do The Right Thing. Quentin has those Red Apple cigarettes everywhere. Stephen King has characters, phrases,...
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
The definition I've offered is rather narrow,...

The definition I've offered is rather narrow, however, it is useful in our context in that illuminates what I'm talking about. Wikipedia indicates that there are two views about the concept, one of...
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
An excellent counterpoint. And yet, I am a...

An excellent counterpoint.

And yet, I am a Bigfoot atheist, just not a categorical one (i.e., there is evidence which could convince me of his existence). I disbelieve because of the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 days ago
Replies: 27
Have you ever watched a Hallmark movie?
Posted By Corax
Re: Have you ever watched a Hallmark movie?

I find their stories to be paper-thin. They make you feel good, but they don't really say much beyond a platitude or a quip. They're gimmicky consumer products intended to be discarded almost as soon...
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
We are in almost total agreement. The part where...

We are in almost total agreement. The part where we aren't is where you lean slightly into scientism.

I would remind you of E.G. Ford's reply, "But, it's not very probable."

And I hold...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 135
Gladiator
Posted By Corax
LOL, you're right. Fast and Furious: Roman...

LOL, you're right.

Fast and Furious: Roman Drift

Vin Diesel as Maximus
Michelle Rodriguez as Lucilla
Tyrese Gibson as Juba
Paul Walker as Commodus
Ludricrous as Lucious
The Rock as Tiger
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 5 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
Spike had his finger on the pulse of the sour...

Spike had his finger on the pulse of the sour undercurrent in American race relations decades before BLM. He also gave voice to the black experience in ways other films didn't. His films are more...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 5 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
There are some films which do not feel like...

There are some films which do not feel like definitive Spike Lee Joints as his early films did. Inside Man is a film that could've been directed by anyone. The only aspect of it which is distinctly...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 5 days ago
Replies: 24
Quentin vs. Spike
Posted By Corax
Quentin vs. Spike

Powerhouses of the 90s.

Both really wanting to have roles in their own movies, despite neither being talented enough to act, and both being didactic in their filmmaking, although Spike's sermons...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 1,801
Most Overrated Movies
Posted By Corax
Things don't have to be absolutely "quantifiable"...

Things don't have to be absolutely "quantifiable" in the sense of being numeric and precise. There are community standards which we can understand, in principle, even if they're hard to apply, in...
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
Right. If anything, I am arguing that you have...

Right. If anything, I am arguing that you have better grounds than you may be claiming.

If we're agreed about that much, then I do think you were in a circular moment upthread.

Except paper...
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
You mentioned the difficulty of proving...

You mentioned the difficulty of proving non-existence. Specifically,

This speaks to the problem of "proving a negative" which we encounter in popular cultural slogans such as "you can't prove a...
Replies: 57
The BIGFOOT Thread
Posted By Corax
It depends on what you mean by "prove." The word...

It depends on what you mean by "prove." The word is ambiguous. Mathematical proof requires 100% certainty. Proof for social science is generally accepted to stand at about 95% certainty. Proof in a...

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