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  3. COVID-19 2.0: No Politics edition

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    4 hours ago, JSngry said:

    I've been mentioning this conversationally amongst my off-line friends for the last 5 years or so, that maybe the planet is just not build to hold this many people, at least not this many living this way, refusing to alter the way they deal with natural resource demand/delivery systems, and even my most "liberal" friends, the ones who love nothing more than to get all emo about "saving the planet" look at me like I'm loony.  My saying "we will never destroy Earth, Earth will destroy us first"...many people just don't like to hear that. I suspect at some level there's a hard-wired vanity involved, because, you know, we humans like to think that we're masters over every damn thing, some of us over each other, but all of us over our basic resources.

    Well, we're not. Any agrarian society knows that. And if the enlightenment of science has gone a long way towards rightfully destroying the various superstitions that sprang from that realization, I think it's a damn fool who at some point doesn't contemplate that destroying a superstition doesn't destroy the reality that generated it to begin with.

    I had a conversation once about this with somebody and said something like maybe we don't have room for any more people, and their response was all roll-eyes Seriously? Do you realize how much empty space there is on the planet? And we can always build vertically!

    Not once considering that all these people take up, not just space, but resources, stuff like, you know, water. We ain't 3D-priniting water yet, ok?

    I mean, nobody wants to think that they're one of the people "taking up too much space", and I totally get that. But...whatcha' gonna do when something bigger than yourself doesn't care what ANY of us thinks?

    I'll break radio silence to say how much I agree with that. My thoughts are much the same.

  14. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    Great double live cd.  Really like this.

    3 hours ago, duaneiac said:

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    I know, for many folks here, the combination of Wynton Marsalis + Christmas music = :bad:.  Haters of both will find much to hate here.  However, to look on the bright side, this CD does not include a version of "The Little Drummer Boy"!  Otherwise, it's the usual gang (Wycliffe Gordon, Victor Goines, Wessell Anderson, Herlin Riley, etc.) going through the usual motions.

     

     

     

  15. Return Of The Film Corner Thread

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    The Cotton Club Encore - Francis Ford Coppola (2019-1984)

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    Don't have a copy of the original to make a comparison but the newly edited version looks really good, with more song and dance . Still feels off kilter with the musical side never meshing with the weak gangster storyline.

    The musical numbers are super good and I would have been happy just watching those. In one scene some arguement in the foreground is supposed to be the focus of attention while a spectacular song and dance number is playing out on stage.

    My attention was entirely on the stage and that sums up the schizoid nature of the film.

    Top marks for the music, although some has been edited out, but much less enthusiasm for the weak mob storyline stuff.

    Judy - Rupert Goold (2019)

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    Renee Zellweger deserves praise for giving it her all. The film is certainly worth watching  but the all pervasive sadness is wearing. It might have been better to offer more light to the darkness of the film. The studio abuse of the young Judy was sickening.

    Made For Each Other - John Cromwell (1939)

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    Carole Lombard and James Stewart are great together. As the film darkens Stewart moves into almost a dress rehearsal for the later tormented George Bailey

    The film goes completely off the rails in the last 25 minutes, to the point of very nearly destroying the film.

    One of the worst examples of studio tampering I've ever seen. Apart from that it's very enjoyable. 

     

  21. Return Of The Film Corner Thread

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    3 hours ago, medjuck said:

    I once saw a brand new 35mm print of Wuthering Heights.  It looked amazing. 

    It's a pity that we can't see the old classics on a big screen, as they were intended.

    Anyhow, I'm still working through the best of 1939, watching as many as possible in BluRay.

    There are so many, it's astonishing that John Ford alone made three films that year that all all classics. 

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