Occupy Makes Bad Recession Worse; Markets Tank Again, But We're #1 in Jumping Jacks: Reason Evening Links
Real leadership in tough times. First Lady of America Michelle Obama confirms that she succeeded in her October effort to break the world record for jumping jacks. Harvard Law School J.D. Obama led the U.S.A. to the Number One spot in global jack-jumpery by getting 300,265 to do jumping jacks within a 24-hour period.
Occunomics produces more pro-recessionary intervention. Occupy Wall Street movement briefly shuts down Long Beach and Oakland ports in a Smoot-Hawleyan attempt to redistribute corporate profits. Wily One Percenters use weather machine to make it rain on the Long Beach protest, scattering less-than-rugged Occupiers.
Wall Street occupied…by morons. Dow declines slightly on news that there is no reason on earth the Dow should be above 7,000 at all Europe debt crisis can't be solved.
The other side of Tebowmania. Lovie Smith, first black coach to lose a Super Bowl, calls Chicago Bears' 13-10 defeat by Denver Broncos "one of the most difficult he's ever had to digest."
Beginning of the end of a medium that has been dying for more than half a century. Movie audiences in the first two weekends of the holiday season are smaller than they were in the first two weekends after the 9/11 attacks.
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Obviously the reason why audiences are down are the evil internet pirates and not the fact that there is fuckall to go see in the theatre.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is coming out soon. The Swedish one was OK; but this one will be directed by David Fincher, which means it could be quite good.
But what I’m really curious about is The Darkest Hour. However, the production values that I could see in the commercials for it looked much lower than one would expect from a $40 million film.
I want to make a joke here, but your movie expertise is way out of my league.
Instead, I’ll ask what your thoughts are on In The Land Of Blood And Honey. I’m cautiously optimistic, but leery with a rookie director.
Impossible to know, since this is Jolie’s directing debut, and she might be good, or she might be terrible. Sean Penn’s a good director, for instance. I really liked The Pledge.
As soon as it comes out you’ll know just by the tone of the reviews.
The trailer looks really solid. Good camerawork and the actors seem to have their shit together. If Jolie’s storyline lives up to what I’ve read, it’s gonna be quite good.
Look, if I want to see a film that contains crimes against humanity, I’ll just go watch Transformers 3.
I still think of that whole franchise as a colossal joke (which I never have and never will see), but it’s apparently considered high drama among kids today.
Doom.
Just wait until you see the high drama that’s coming.
HEY!!
Because he can, Bingo. Because he can.
Egad.
I got into a conversation about classic cinema the other day on a date. The woman, being much younger than me, thought E.T. was a classic.
Am I just getting old, or is she full of shit?
E.T. is absolutely a classic. All of Spielberg’s early work is.
The original E.T., perhaps; before it was PC’d down.
What changed in E.T.? to make it PC?
They CG’s the guns out and replaced them with walkie-talkies for starters.
Uh, huh.
Dropping “You look like a terrorist” and replacing guns with walkie-talkies, for instance.
I think you mean before it was Ataried down.
For some reason, I’m thinking a movie had to be released prior to 1980. In 5 years, that may be different.
And do you consider Always or Amistad to be classics? I thought they were shit.
I’m mainly speaking of Duel, Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders, and E.T. Temple of Doom is both classic yet a bit campy, so I’m not sure where to categorize it.
Ah, I forgot Duel, as it was made for TV. Good flick.
I’d say 25 years old is the cutoff for classic. Like boats (and cars, maybe?). Though the older one gets, the harder that is to accept.
I like early Spielberg, but not E.T..
Jaws, Close Encounters, 1941 and Raiders of The Lost Ark. That was one hell of a start.
E.T. was good, but I am way beyond burned out on it.
Nothing Spielberg has or will do will ever top Jaws. His first film ever, Duel, is also very good. Funny how his first films were his peak.
Jaws is basically a “perfect” movie. There isn’t a point in it where you go “that was stupid/bad/boring/badly shot”.
But Raiders is the ultimate adventure. I remember walking into the cafeteria in grade school the Monday after the weekend it came out and the two kids who had already seen it were basically freaking out telling the rest of us how incredible it was. Like, “OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG” freaking out.
I realize most people hated Super 8, but I enjoyed it. Not the best thing Speilberg has ever stamped his name on before obviously, but I thought the film itself was well done, if a little cheesy at times.
Also, the best movie that has come out this year was The Guard with Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson. It’s a crying shame more people haven’t seen this movie.
The best thing about Super 8 was the playable teaser included with Portal 2.
I have not seen Super 8, and the best movie of this year was Drive. If you haven’t seen it, rent it the instant it’s available.
Yeah, I have to see Drive. Heard nothing but good things about it.
Check out The Guard before Super 8, Gleeson is farking hilarious in it. And Cheadle is superb as usual.
Yeha, Raiders is up there too, but then he had to go and make the Temple of Kate Capshaw Screaming and ruin it.
Okey dokey, Doctor JW!
he had to go and make the Temple of Kate Capshaw Screaming and ruin it.
So you’re saying Capshaw didn’t marry Speilberg for his looks?
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Jaws is basically a “perfect” movie. There isn’t a point in it where you go “that was stupid/bad/boring/badly shot”.
But Raiders is the ultimate adventure. I remember walking into the cafeteria in grade school the Monday after the weekend it came out and the two kids who had already seen it were basically freaking out telling the rest of us how incredible it was. Like, “OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG” freaking out.
^^This^^ is a perfect post.
You know what’s a really great movie though? I mean, it’s no Jaws, but it’s still pretty damn perfect.
I wouldn’t suggest clicking on the above link as it wasn’t posted by me but by a spoofer. I have no idea what it is.
Oh for christs sake, it’s just a link to the Human Centipede II trailer. No malware or anything like that, I’m not that sort of spoofer.
Well, you’ve mixed yourself in with a spoofing crowd that would, so what did you expect?
I expect a little respect since I go out of my way to provide a quality spoof for the customer. It’s the market, bitchez; until people stop using the site because they’re tired of all the spoofing crap, then we’ll continue to spoof.
Since none of you stop using it, we must conclude that most actually aren’t as upset about “spoofing” as they claim. Revealed v. stated preferences and all that.
No-rules libertarianism is a bitch, ain’t it?
No-rules libertarianism is a bitch, ain’t it?
Not really, no. But thanks for trying.
It’s to YouTube. What could possibly go wrong?
I’ve asked a few times and haven’t gotten an answer. Was it really that good? When is it coming out on DVD, and how far is Six into production on HC3: Final Sequence?
From what I’ve read, everything that was suggested in part one is shown, in extremely graphic detail, in part two. Six goes out of his way to offend. And you know how in most movies, right when the gore ramps up to its most extreme, the camera cuts away and you get an audio cue about how bad it is, like a drill or screams of pain, etc.? Well, this movie never cuts away. At least, that’s my understanding.
You are correct, Joe M. Epi is just pissy that his boyfriends Warty and SugarFree didn’t want to act it out with him.
He had a conversation with Gojira a few days ago where they were linking the worst movies they could find. Only sick, sad people watch that kind of garbage.
not only is jaws awesome, but my acting coach (at the time) had a great part. lee fierro.
she slaps brodie in the face
lots of vineyarders were extras, but she had a memorable role and after the final take, she got an ovation from scheider, etc.
incredible actor and teacher
Nothing Spielberg has or will do will ever top Jaws.
Really? I think Schindler’s List is probably his best film. Though it’s understandably hard to watch more than once.
The woman, being much younger than me, thought E.T. was a classic.
It is. That was still Spielberg’s Close Encounters era which took what could have been mundane sci-fi potboilers and really made them expert direction.
By the way, Spielberg can direct kids like no other I’ve ever seen. The kids always come out looking like… kids. Never schamltzy or over-cute. They seem like… kids. Bratty behavior, flaws and all.
Yeah, Paul, Spielberg’s work with kids is amazing. I remember sitting in the theater watching E.T. and having Elliott call his sibling “penis-breath” and being shocked and then realizing I did the same kind of insulting to my sister, probably that very day. Great stuff.
Jaws is great. I found The Guard very entertaining. I thought Drive was just kind of meh. I have no idea why people keep raving about it.
For me at least, Drive was a real flashback/homage to Michael Mann and movies like Thief, even down to the shooting style and music (Mann used Tangerine Dream for this and The Keep, and Drive’s soundtrack reminded me of that). And then the explosive violence was nice.
As soon as the opening getaway scene started unrolling, I knew I was going to love the movie. The end could have been better, but I’ll take what I can get.
I never saw Thief, but based on his filmography, I would not say I’m a fan of Michael Mann.
Really, no love for Manhunter, Heat, Last of the Mohicans?
manhunter is good, but imo HEAT is about the best of its genre. HEAT is right up there with goodfella, and WAY better than ROnin
I usually detest period films (usually because it’s based on chick lit), but I put Mohicans in my Top 10.
Last of the Mohicans, yes, but not Heat, which just seemed way too contrived. Manhunter isn’t ringing any bells.
Also, I thought Human Centipde was original, but it wasn’t good. It’s hardly shocking or worth all the hype.
manhunter is the first hannibal lector movie.
lots of michael mann stuff (music and visuals)
michael mann is kind of like ridley scott in that certain visuals in their movies just scream – THIS MOVIE WAS DIRECTED BY …
THIS MOVIE WAS DIRECTED BY …
Like the Inna Gadda Da Vida ending to Manhunter?
RoboCain, you might want to check out Manhunter.
This is like the worst chat room ever.
Yikes, Darkest Hour looks like a high budget Syfy release. WTF did they spend the money on?
Forgot about Dragon Tattoo coming out, the trailer was seriously top notch, definitely checking that one out.
Yeah, the SyFy thing was my thought as well; it looks like it’s TV, not cinema.
Maybe they spent the money on something good like writers. Or maybe they spent it on their salaries. I guess we’ll find out.
It was the lighting.
Seems like they half-assed the post-production, not a lot of consistency between shots. Like they finished shooting and realized they were out of cash so they just handed it off to their interns.
I loved it.
Maybe they spent it on bribing the hundreds of layers of Russian bureaucracy that could potentially keep you from making a movie there.
I might see TGWTDT but I actually liked the Swedish one so I’m not sure I’ll bother just because American’s are too lazy to read subtitles. My fiancee is a big fan of all the books so if it is well reviewed it’ll be a nice one to let her choose for her turn to pick.
It’s directed by David Fincher, who has done enough excellent work to get the benefit of the doubt from me.
Also, it isn’t remake of the Swedish one; it’s a separate adaptation of the book.
That’s a good list of movies.
dragon tattoo was pretty fucking weak
i had the same reaction to it, i had to “shakespeare in love”. … all this hype for THIS CRAP?
yea, i get it… she’s a lesbian and all edgy and techie and hardcore and she has tats, and stuff…
but…
it was essentially a mediocre police procedural type movie, filled with stupid cliches, and with really not a lot of redeeming stuff
I didn’t like the original, never saw the remake. Although for massive grrl-power fail, nothing is more grating than Sucker Punch.
hell yes. i turned it off after about 20 minutes. that says it all. i just couldn’t take it any more.
i also would like to say that “bunrako” or however you spell it was COLOSSALLY stupid and i also turned it off after about 20 minutes, if that
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo=sperglord tripe.
This kind of shit fascinates nerds who are used to being dominated by women.
Bill Watterson’s trope about this stuff still holds true: “You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a “graphic novel,” but comic books are still incredibly stupid.
Why in the world would you be curious about that? The plot sounds incredibly stupid and the visuals in the TV commercials are the sort that would have been impressive 10 years ago.
Because I fucking love alien invasion films and many of them suck huge monkey balls, and each time I have a slight hope that this time, this one will be good?
It worked for District 9.
Wow, way to spoil District 9 for me.
Dude, that thing has Skyline written all over it.
Sure, the rational part of my brain knows that. But the foolish, irrational part still holds out hope, especially since Falling Skies hasn’t started another season yet.
It’s Skyline meets Cloverfield. Overly attractive facebook teens fight aliens. If touching the little wisps immediately vaporized you, why would the aliens bother grabbing you by the ankle with their little lightning tentacles?
I see huge plot issues with the trailer alone.
It’s Skyline meets Cloverfield.
I was rooting for the monster after about the 1st five minutes.
Am I really the only one who thinks B.J. and the Bear screams out for a big screen treatment? And soon, before Greg Evigan is too dead to make a cameo as B.J.’s uncle. (B.J. being played by Taylor Lautner, of course.)
Please, continue…
Is Sam Worthington still inexplicably considered a hot property in Hollywood? He could be Sheriff Lobo. Now, if I could only figure who could play the other title character…
Billy Baldwin, perhaps?
Maybe. I don’t know. I was caught off guard. No one ever told me to continue before.
was worthington the guy in terminator salvation?
that movie actually grew on me a little. god knows it was better than terminator 3 which SUCKED (kristianna lokken (sp?) was hot though)
Lobo, Lobo, bring back Sheriff Lobo!
Or maybe, just maybe, it could have to do with the price of tickets and snack bar purchases, combined with recession.
And when did Miley Cyrus become this hot? Yowza. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/…..photos.DTL
Meh. Cookie cutter attractive.
You don’t like cookies?
I’m more of a bun man, myself.
Not really plain ass, dry ass sugar cookies.
I like cookies. Especially oreos.
I’m Heroic Mulatto, and I approve this message.
Daughter was seriously cute flying around the VIP room in First Class
You watched that piece of shit?
Are you Banjos’ boyfriend?
Did you know she even plays that damn banjo in the shower.
Note to self: find a waterproof banjo.
Why don’t you get doc to buy you an antique one.
[runs away weepimg]
I keed. Never met her.
It’s called having a lot of money and spending it on your appearance.
And from which Goodwill store did her date get his outfit?
Am I detecting a hint of silicon in that photo?
Yep.
You motor-boatin’ sonuva bitch.
the problem with miley cyrus is the same problem with lisa marie presley.
if you were fucking either, they look too much like their dads, and that’s just weird
I mean, I ain’t no fag, but Elvis
was prettier than most women, you know?
You know, I always said
if I had to fuck a guy–you know, I mean, had to–if my life depended on it–
I’d fuck Elvis.
Well, when he was alive. Not now.
This is bowl of shit. A real record would have been her fat ass doing all the jumping jacks in a row without stopping by herself. How can the Harvard stiff even prove that that many people participated?
Are you calling the First Lady a liar?
More like a lier.
As shape goes, more like a lyre.
That’s good.
Getting credit for stealing other people’s work is what modern liberalism is all about.
Come on, Tulpa. She *got* those people to do the work.
It’s called “The Weather Dominator,” 99percenters!
There’s supposed to be maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch of rain today in greater Long Beach area and that drove these people away? What about smashing capitalism and throwing yourself on the gears of the machine?
1/2″ of rain in Long Beach? That’s flash-flood weather there, man. These people have to think of their safety.
There is indeed a fucking deluge in Long Beach today. Any attempts at protesting is ill advised. I’m only leaving my house because I’m out of vodka.
Wiley Wily One Percent uses weather machine to make it rain on the Long Beach protest, scattering less-than-rugged Occupiers.
FIFY. And still no word on my fund-raising idea of auctioning off a weekly monthly editorial column to the highest bidder, Nick?
I’m in for 10 grand.
That is actually an excellent idea. They can auction each month and no monies paid until the Nick/Matt/lawyers are ok with the winner…if not the winner then next down line…etc. A REALLY good free market way to raise funds. Hell I would bid for a month. And they could have a full online event to do it to, like they did with the question thing.
Thanks.
“Movie audiences in the first two weekends of the holiday season are smaller than they were in the first two weekends after the 9/11 attacks.”
Meanwhile, I’ve heard that Netflix accounts for almost a third of peak internet traffic.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..story.html
I will only go to art houses now.
The other 2/3 is porn.
There’s some overlap (I’ve been told).
But your point is well taken.
I’ve yet to see anything resembling porn on Netflix. If anybody knows of any, let me know, as my Instant Queue is getting low.
Careful what you ask for.
Bedways… hmmm… I’ve become a fan of German films because of Netflix. I’ve told my wife that my next wife is going to be German… and she’s Brazilian.
brazilian women tend to have epic asses.
EPIC
Yes. Yes they do.
The movie Room in Rome, though not hardcore porn, should have been on that list too.
In other words, Michelle and her husband are useless dumbshits, and the Occupy movement blows. What else is new?
Beginning of the end of a medium that has been dying for more than half a century.
I’m telling you: Smellovision is where it’s at.
You’ll regret that when that sheep castration documentary comes out.
I hear Brooksie is getting his dentures ready for filming.
Feelies.
Of the all the dystopian novels I’ve read so far, that one was the worst. Not bad, but not as great as you would think it should be, especially when it gets held up against Orwell or Bradbury.
Movie audiences in the first two weekends of the holiday season are smaller than they were in the first two weekends after the 9/11 attacks.
Just wait. The terrorists haven’t won yet. The Untitled Michael Bay/Taylor Lautner Project hasn’t been released.
I hear that it’s scheduled for release December 21, 2012.
To think, Barack Obama is going to be our last president, Mitt Romney our last president-elect, and Untitled Michael Bay/Taylor Lautner Project our last blockbuster.
Do you think the end will be fast? Or slower than the plot of Star Trek Nemesis?
Very fast, but it’ll seem slow.
Do you think the end will have to be explained to you like the cerebral, edgy and multi-layered plot of Star Trek Nemesis?
God, I hope not. What was that movie about again?
It was about about how each of us is shaped by our experiences, about the darkness that exists in obsession, and about nearly killing a lucrative franchise.
I feel for Lovie. You know he game-planned like crazy to deal with His Timness, yet it was all for naught.
It makes me a little ill to see all of these old Bucs coaches (Lovie, Mike Tomlin), succeeding to varying degrees elsewhere, while Tampa spirals out of control into a crash like you saw at the beginning of The Six Million Dollar Man.
Should a grown man in the NFL be named Lovie?
I dunno, but he was a good position coach in Tampa and seems like a decent head coach.
I looked it up–he was named after his aunt, of all things. Must’ve been one hell of an aunt.
Conservative nutcase Michael Savage offers Gingrot $1 million to leave GOP race:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-…..witterfeed
Wall Street occupied…by morons. Dow declines slightly on news that there is no reason on earth the Dow should be above 7,000 at all Europe debt crisis can’t be solved.
THERE IS NO LINK HERE.
Well, there wasn’t.
Thanks to your timely cri de coeur.
A couple has been charged after having sex in public on a Toronto subway train and platform.
The two were clearly visible to other passengers, including one who videotaped their brazen behaviour.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com…..le2268422/
Alas, no link to video.
I Found the alleged video. I should say, NSFW.
Linkyand I warned ya.
So that’s what subway platform sex is supposed to look like. No wonder no one noticed when I did it.
intricate canadian foreplay involving pudding, etc.
i learned about it from south park
the really nasty couples substitute poutine
I always suspected milk in a bag makes you horny.
that’s not milk, sweetie
In the name of Rowsdower!
Yours truly, Larry Csonka.
eeh….Ehhh!
Rowsdower, dowsdower, bippity-boppity bausdower!
Is Evening Links so delicate that it can’t stand NSFW links? If anything, Morning Links happens when people are actually at work. Link.
Lovie Smith, first black coach to lose a Super Bowl, calls Chicago Bears’ 13-10 defeat by Denver Broncos “one of the most difficult he’s ever had to digest.”
Maybe he should have prayed just a little harder.
I don’t think there’s any hope of out-praying Tebow. Look at Marion Barber, who is a very devout Christian. Not only did he lose, he was somewhat humiliated in his errors.
He probably masturbated at halftime or something. No wonder the ball slipped out of his hands so easily.
I doubt it was anything that sinful. He probably accidentally looked down a cheerleader’s top.
On the contrary, I would think the hairy palms would help secure the ball.
You can’t outpray the guy that has to pray into a mirror.
The bizarre thing is that the only team that’s beaten Tebow this season is arguably the dirtiest, most sinful team in the league.
Suh should have told Goodell he was possessed by a stomping demon after playing with a Ouija board the night before the Lions @ Broncos.
Mysterious ways and all of that.
Pray First, Act Later
Theme for this Week: Prayer Cover
Monday, May 13
Key Bible Verse: We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps (Proverbs 16:9). Bonus Reading:Proverbs 16:1, 3; 19:21; 20:24
The magazine ad for the media company read: “Before deciding on a strategy, developing a plan, or negotiating a deal, we indulge in a nearly forgotten ritual. Thinking.”
Has that become true for you? In this cell-phone- and e-mail-driven world in which we live, can you afford the time to think? Can you afford not to? More importantly, substitute praying for thinking in the ad copy.
What can you do to counteract the tendency to act first and pray later? A few tips:
Start your day that way. Before your feet hit the floor, ask God to order your steps through the day.
Snack on some Scripture. Keep your Bible handy. There’s no better business reference book ever printed.
One more thing, Daddy. Children have a way of stretching the day when it’s time for lights out. If you’ve lost that feeling of “hanging on for a few more minutes” with your heavenly Father, seek to rekindle the flame at day’s end.
So, instead of thinking first, try praying, for starters. I’ll guarantee your thinking not only will be more productive, but you’ll also find yourself more closely aligned with the Father’s will.
It’s not the medium of movies that’s dying, it’s the ossified Hollywood financing and distribution method.
I thought it was because Hollywood mostly produces rehashed, formulaic, politically correct, MPAA-approved, retarded crap.
Part of the problem, too, is the dilution of storylines to serve the later international market.
For countries that don’t make movies? Because Asian and European films often seem to have better storylines.
That’s because only the better ones make it over here.
i believe that’s PART of it. but imo, they kick our arse in horror.
we have not seen many, if any, good horror movies in years
i’m not talking slasher, i’m talking good horror movies, such as (god forbid i plug a polanski movie) rosemary’s baby, the exorcist, the omen, etc.
please don’t get me started on the sixth sense (meh).
most of the decent horror movies i have seen recently are either foreign (let the right one in, ringu, devil’s backbone) or remakes of same
I feel ya. One of my favorite horror movies in recent years was The Orphange, which is a Spanish movie from 2006 or so. Just a bare-bones ghost story. Almost no violence or bloodshed, no “boo” moments, no scary monsters; just good, old-fashioned psychological horror, ratcheted up over the duration of the film.
i saw that. it was good.
The Blair Witch Project was decent. But I am struggling to come up with another example. Maybe Drag Me To Hell but that wandered off into comedy quite a bit.
drag me to hell was excellent, but imo it’s not really what i refer to when i talk about a horror movie. it’s a raimi ode to horror movies, in the same way that scream(1, 2, etc.) is an ode to but also a riff on 80’s slasher movies.
blair witch was good, and certainly (somewhat) unique , although it did not invent the genre of faux documentary horror movies as many people think (who have never seen cannibal holocaust)…
there have been so many “so so” US horror movies e.g. Stir of Echoes, but nothing like the exorcist or rosemary’s baby in years
jacob’s ladder is pretty good as well
Let the Right One In, the Swedish original, is a very unique horror film.
I’ve seen at least on horror film a week for years, so I’m not even going to try to list what’s good and what isn’t. Although, I’ll add the original Shutter (Singapore, although there are several Asian and an American remake) is another one.
it was better the 2nd time, too. which i find often with good horror movies.
i thought the american remake was PRETTY good. it certainly didn’t do a disservice ot the original
You mean Let The Right One In not Shutter. The American version of Shutter is the worst of all of them.
yes, i mean the american version of the the right one in.
not sure if i saw shutter, or its american version. not ringing a bell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_(2004_film)
Sorry, it was the Thai version that was the original.
Oh, how could I forget one of the scarier recent American horror movies.
The Asian and European films that get imported to the US are the cream of the cream of the crop, and few of them were intended to wind up in the US.
I think PL was referring to the fact that big budget films place a premium on easily translatable dialogue and only the shallowest grounding in Western culture.
Well, that makes sense, but they frequently do things that the MPAA would never allow.
The MPAA doesn’t “allow” anyone to do anything. You’re allowed to film anything you want other than arranged criminal activity.
imo, european films almost universally suck, even the ones that are supposed to be good (i am excluding the UK – they make good movies)
heck, i speak french, so i’d love to watch a good movie in native french, but they almost always SUCK
asian movies otoh, … there are SO many epic ones.
infernal affairs is one of my favorites and imo the remake “the departed” wasn’t nearly as good. i thought it kind of sucked
It “allows” them to make money.
well yes. but my understanding is its entirely voluntary. movies are not required to submit to MPAA board for review. it’s just that many movie theaters won’t carry unrated movies.
and if they are rated, it’s up to movie theaters as to which movies they carry. iow, some movie theaters won’t do NC-17 and i assume some might even not do R movies.
iow, it’s all about private business decisions, at least, so i guess i have no fundamental opposition to the system
it increases information, without (govt) limiting choice
i have friends who are mormons and won’t see R (or NC-17 obviously) movies.
there are exceptions, like when one friend of mine was in film class at college, and they watched clockwork orange, etc.
but as a matter of entertainment – only pg-13, pg, or g
You should watch This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
i will try to check it out. thx
That’s a good documentary. The favoritism toward big-studio flicks is indeed pretty disheartening.
However, that doesn’t change the fact that it IS a voluntary system. And it’s much easier to distribute unrated video than it used to be.
For a couple of examples, a deeply American film like Glory or Falling Down is not something that studios want to spend money on when the only growing movie markets are overseas.
There seems to have been more Westerns lately. Also, I don’t think only Americans would be interested in your examples.
Westerns are a bad example, as the whole planet loves westerns. Kurosawa made Japanese versions decades ago, for instance. Which we ripped off to make back into westerns.
So did the Dagos.
That’s complicated, because I think those were filmed in Spain by Italians with American leads primarily for the American audience. Though I could be wrong.
I was always under the impression that they were filmed in English and had voice-overs done into Italian. Then, they were redubbed a second time into English.
I don’t think too many of them were main features in America, most likely resigned to be the second movie at drive-ins and double-feature cinemas.
Any old fuckers out there that can set us straight? Sevo?
Here is an example of what I’m saying.
I think the point is that mass audiences in the PRC aren’t going to be interested in those things, just like mass audiences in the US aren’t interested in foreign films.
Plus of course, as annoying as the MPAA’s rating regime is, it ain’t close to the PRC’s thought police.
Well yeah. Indie films haven’t shown the same sort of decline (though Sturgeon’s law applies as always).
Indie films still fear being sentenced NC-17.
Hollywood has been producing rehashed, formulaic, MPAA-approved stuff for decades.
True enough, but the entire movie experience except for the other viewers is getting close to being replicated in the home. I imagine they’ll hang on in more of a niche capacity with features unavailable to most consumers–like IMAX, for instance.
Plays, on the other hand, usually don’t get performed in the home, except those really artsy kind that involve nudity and audience involvement, often reversing gender roles.
I’ll walk up to my mail lady and ask her if she talks to the movie screen while watching. If so, I’ll invite her in. My viewing experience at home is missing something that can only be provided by the theater experience.
Easily solved by watching movies in an immersive, MMO-type environment. Probably mere weeks away.
No thanks. Imagine inviting griefer trolls into your living room. It’d be like reading Hit and Run.
Re: Chris,
Why not teach your many cats to blabber while watching movies? It would be less creepy than inviting your mail lady to see movies with you…
She’s usually high as a kite when I run in to her. She’d probably be up for it.
Creepiness is for the less handsome inclined, so no worries anyway.
You should also invite in teenagers to get up and walk in and out during key scenes.
Which is why at this point I only go to places like Alamo Drafthouse (http://drafthouse.com/) any more because I want something more than just the move. Also because they expect to sell booze the actual ticket prices are cheaper.
So fucking jealous.
What about Occutards vs. grizzly bears? That will solve three problems at the same time.
there is no reason on earth the Dow should be above 7,000 at all
Tim you do know that it has been some time since economists have proven that prices of things are not determined by their utility but based on what poeple are willing to pay for them, right?
some people complain about where the market SHOULD be.
traders capitalize on inefficiencies instead of whining about it 🙂
Re: Joshua Corning,
Prices also covey information, Joshua; they have an epistemological function, and in the case of the stock market, it clearly conveys yet another bubble being kept or propped up artificially.
trade/invest your opinion or its worth nothing
Huh. This appears to be an appropriate use of SWAT.
/dunphy
Those are some scary alien arms.
No shit. That has to be shopped.
Isn’t it a screencap from District 9?
you are calling her a PRAWN?
that’s racist!
well, it’s specist, anyways!
SPECIST!!!
ALIEN PRWN’D!
Players at a gay softball team claim discrimination – supposedly they weren’t gay enough. Case is settled; both sides claim victory.
http://bit.ly/vvaOmx
this has been covered extensively at volokh.com iirc
nttawwt
lovie smith? were his parents big gilligan’s island fans?
Lilo Playboy pics:
http://imgur.com/a/y2PNH#0
NSFW
The goggles!
They do nothing!
God bless you, RoboCain.
This is bullshit! I want bush, pan down.
haven’t we seen enough of the fire crotch?
or is too much never enough? like MTV
Why does Lohan think she is too good to spread em for the camera? She could at least get a dildo in there for her fans.
Calling Miss Lohan “Lilo” is an insult to Lilo Pulver.
(If you haven’t seen One, Two, Three, I strongly recommend it.)
What the fuck is this half-assed bullshit? She pockets a million dollars, and she gets to strategically cover her fucked-out skankhole with a goddamn pillow? Fuck Hugh Hefner.
Got to admit that’s pretty good trolling by the Hefster.
Dude, Hef’s been trollin’ since Larry Flynt learned how to operate a kodak. The only people that get boners from Playboy are closeted mormon half-wits.
“Lyndsey, I have a great idea of how we can make you look attractive to other people again…we make you look like someone else! I mean, you already look about 40, the booze and the pills have already worked their magic and you probably already fucked a minor Kennedy somewhere. It’ll be gold, baby, GOLD!”
There is some heavy de-freckling going on with that lighting and airbrushing.
They must have gone through a dozen cans of Photoshop.
True, but that’s always been true of Playboy. And you’ve got to admit, those are some world-class tits.
I will give her that. I’ve always liked her yabbos.
Taking On the Anti Arguments, One at a Time ? Part Deux
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c…..more-86531
holy fucking alien arms, batman!
iirc, it was PJ Orourke who claimed that any movement with impact and staying power needs to have the hawt women in it.
they are the universal attractors for men (many if not most men joined the 70’s movements for the hawt wimmins/free love with same) to join
as ridiculous as PETA’s positions are, they probably get most of their support due to campaigns involving nude models
maybe it’s just me, but from what i’ve seen on video, and in person, OWS is SERIOUSLY lacking attractive women in its ranks
attractive women are almost everywhere BUT OWS camps
skinnyfat vegans with dreads who haven’t showered in 2 weeks and smell like patchouli, pot, BO, and hauna punani are not going to get many converts
I got a 7.5 two weeks ago in manhattan on the way home from work. Hippie chicks can be fun, they are usually cool with anal and being called names. It empowers them. Hot hippie/finance geek hate sex
I got a 7.5 two weeks ago in manhattan on the way home from work. Hippie chicks can be fun, they are usually cool with anal and being called names. It empowers them. Hot hippie/finance geek hate sex
Aren’t you supposed to say, “shit was so cash,” or something?
That’s the guy I shared my office with my first year out. I am not fully immersed in the douchebag culture yet.
i have heard that manhattan (and DC) have disproportionate (compared to males) #’s of single, hawt wimmins.
even in socal, i had a few hippie chix in college, but they are not really my thing
i preferred surf bunnies , sorority girls and groupies (i played in a band).
you have to be careful with groupies, though. some of them were high school girls hanging out at off campus parties. and you’d never know. i don’t know what they put in the water in california…
Do they like having their titties slapped?
Didn’t ask. I stuck with the old standbys of hairpulling and deepthroat. Titty slapping sounds silly.
Yes, but it’s a good segway into regular slapping. And if it doesn’t go over well, you can just pretend that you accidently missed the titties.
if that is the case
the libertarian movement is doomed
big l libertarian
well, despite the few hawt women, reason.com has in its ranks/videos, the libertarian movement does seem to be somewhat of a sausage fest
considering it seems to attract star trek and/or scifi nerds, etc. and the kind of people (like me) that used to quote monty python excessively in high school, play dungeons and dragons, read heinlein and philip k dick, etc… this is not surprising
Like the gay rights movement, for instance.
well god knows the gay rights movement has TONS of hot women.
i am 100% super cereal.
fwiw, i used to go to this gay dance club in LA and the women were off the hook hot.
You were working undercover in the bathroom stings, I suppose?
no, i was dancing.
i was a MANIAC… (runs in place) ON THE DANCE FLOOR
You embarrass us.
This picture is super racist.
This picture is super racist.
Adventures in Feminism:
Everything we don’t like is rape (part 3,267):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..39555.html
It turns out, when they sort through thousands of lines of interviews, they can find quotes from convicted rapists that are similar to lines selectively pulled from thousands of issues of men’s magazines. From there, it’s just 3 tortured paragraphs to rape.
it’s rapes all the way down
this culture is steeped in patriarchy
women are the Universal Victims(tm)
etc.
in areas where women soundly trump men (college degrees, longevity, custody matters etc.) of course it’s not because of anything biased in favor of women
because women are always on the victim side QED
oh, also… those duke boys still did SOMETHING wrong, stop apologizing for them!
It turns out, when they sort through thousands of lines of interviews, they can find quotes from convicted rapists that are similar to lines selectively pulled from thousands of issues of men’s magazines.
When you match up feminists’ own quotes with nearly every speech from Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc, I’m sure it will written off as just a massive coincidence.
In the comments of the article, someone did it with women’s magazines and Dr. Mengele.
It’s just a coincidence!
No one ever knows what “rape” means anymore.
“49 percent of women who were raped did not classify their experience as such in a 2000 study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.”
Serious question: how can it be rape if the alleged victim doesn’t think it was rape? I’m not talking about people to scared/ashamed to report it. The whole issue with rape is consent. If they don’t classify it as rape then I would assume they are saying that there was some sort of consent involved.
well, the law varies state to state (obviously) but under most penal codes (huh huh huh) and most definitions of rape… sex without consent is rape
so, for instance if a person is very intoxicated, they cannot legally consent to sex
hence, it’s (technically ) rape
in my state, that is true UNLESS the parties are married. in the case of spouses, it’s only rape if it’s against consent or by forcible compulsion, but not without consent. iow, it’s implied
so, if longtime bf/gf both get drunk off their ass and have sex, they technically BOTH committed (and were the victims of) rape
i am not saying any prosecutor would touch any of this bullshit, but under most feminist definitions, and many legal definitions – it’s rape
some feminists also believe (and conduct their polling thusly, thus cooking the books) that if a man (it’s always a man of course) convinces a woman who was hesitant to have sex, or said no previously, THAT is rape. because persuasion is rape.
i am super cereal. feministing type people believe this…
guy: cmon baby, i’ll still respect you
woman: i’m not sure. i don’t think so. no
guy: cmon, i won’t tell my friends.
woman: ok
RAPE!!!
etc.
fwiw,i once investigated a spousal rape case where whenever the wife would piss the husband off, he would engage in … a DBF. he had allegedly been doing this for years, despite her initial protestations. after the first few times, she said she just succumbed since it was easier and he wasn’t going to stop.
i’m like: Ma’am, what is a DBF?
woman: Disciplinary Buttfuck
lol
fwiw,i once investigated a spousal rape case where whenever the wife would piss the husband off, he would engage in … a DBF.
Is it considered rape if she knows what the punishment is and goes out of her way to do it anyway while impishly grinning? I need to know. You know, for a friend.
i am an attorney so i cannot give legal advice
(looks both ways, sees coast is clear)
go for it!
note though that a rictus of pain =/= an impish grin
hth
:l
ugh, i am NOT an attorney
go for it!
Sadly, that relationship is no more. It was fun as hell while it lasted, though.
Pro Libertate|12.12.11 @ 6:47PM|#
“That’s complicated, because I think those were filmed in Spain by Italians with American leads primarily for the American audience. Though I could be wrong.”
I can’t find the numbers, but France in particular limited the number of “US” films for some time, so they might be a work-around for the protectionism.
See here concerning televised protectionism:
http://www1.american.edu/ted/frenchtv.htm
Dammit reason, I come here to get away from the failures of yesterday’s Bears game, thanks a fucking lot.
Try being a Chiefs fan.
At least we shitcanned our incompetent head coach.
You’re going to get another one if you hire McDaniels.
Take my Martz. Please!
WTF? You schmucks beat us last week on a friggin Hail Mary.
Don’t schedule the Tebow next year then.
$4.7B later, broadband stimulus program has zero completions
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12…..mpletions/
Can’t actually build anything that quick, have to spend years on the environmental assessments and such.
I worked for a state-wide semi-private network that got funding for building out a lot of fiber from ARRA (I think BTOP, too, but I forget). Things were massively delayed on EA, for things like “what’s the environmental impact of stringing a piece of fiber across existing utility poles.”
I got out of there because they were more interested in writing grants than doing something interesting.
“I got out of there because they were more interested in writing grants sponging off the taxpayers than doing something interesting.”
Fixed.
Why are theaters still showing movies in rooms with over 100 seats? A smaller facility with rooms for groups of 12 or fewer would be best. Then you could hang out with friends for a private showing of a movie.
You mean like a living room?
Each print of a movie costs about $100,000. Do the math on how much they’d have to charge for a screening for 12.
Youngblood is on.
WOO
Awesome movie; got the dvd.
You ever see Mystery Alaska? Another good hockey flick.
miracle FTW
Mystery Alaska is a fine hockey movie.
Uh, I think all intelligent and discerning moviegoers must agree that the greatest hockey film of all times is Sudden Death.
Well, yeah. Somethings just don’t need to be said.
Iceberg vs. Van Damme vs. Meatslicer in the battle of the century!
Did JCVD score the winning goal in that? I forget.
No, it was one of the 650,000 fans who were, “Totally at that game when they made the Van Damme movie”.
You disgust me. The Muscles from Brussels (SPOILER ALERT) stopped a shot in that Game 7 of the SCF.
And, for the record, there was no winning goal. With the cry, “Oh, shit!” Paul Steigerwald signaled everyone to abandon the Civic Arena before the end of the game. The whole thing ended with the very plausible helicopter crashing straight down, ass-first into the ice.
Get in the fast lane, Grandma, the bingo game’s ready to roll!
Paul Steigerwald?
any relation?
man, this lattice of coincidence, kevin bacon shit is scary
Dude, you can’t walk down the street in P-burgh without tripping over at least two journalists named Steigerwald.
One that’s not Lucy has a couple articles on Reason.
what is it , some kind of weird nepotism thing?
granted,every boston cop i ever met has a name that starts with “O'” or “Mc” or “Mac”…
(pause)
even the black guys
(rimshot)
No, I think it’s just a family that’s found a talent for journalism, except John Steigerwald he’s a total nepotism case(sorry lucyfer).
Fuck you match.com, for not having “drive zamboni” as a requirement.
driving zamboni sounds like a good euphemism for a sexual act of some sort.
Jesus Christ. I do some actual work for a couple days, and I come back and there are afternoon links, a fund raiser, and another Tebow victory.
Merry Christmas, Reason
Come back in six weeks. Epi and rather are finally getting hitched. Live! In the chat room!
…and then he gives her a DBF.
The reason people don’t GO to the movies is because it’s a huge expense and inconvenience. $20 for tickets. $20 for a pair of Cokes and popcorn. Sticky floors. Uncomfortable seats. Gaggles of screaming kids. Awful top 40 music accompanying a slideshow of movie trivia a 4-year-old could answer correctly. Sitting through a fucking eternity of trailers for bullshit movies you’ll never want to see. Teenagers talking to one another and texting. I wouldn’t go to a theater if the movie was free.
For $5 you can rent the movie a few months later and watch it at home with better sound, a better picture, a beer, and no damn kids running around.
Should we get off your lawn now?
I posted it above but you need to look for something similar to this near you: http://drafthouse.com/austin.
Cheaper tickets, good food, extensive selection of microbrews on tap, instead of the trivia bullshit they play old videos of the actors, stand up from comedians in the movie, etc. and noone under 18 allowed in. In law school the one in Austin even had a free midnight B-horror movie once a week.
This is an example of their “don’t talk in the movie” video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqLWTQCeHM
Ever heard of a matinee, arriving late in anticipation of the trailers, or eating before/after instead of during?
i bring my own food if im hungry. fuck them. CALL ME A REBEL (not sure if it’s against the rules, but WTF?)
plus, food tastes better if it’s been stuffed in your pocket
even better if stuffed down the front of my pants!
I just tazer the guy next to me and steal his nachos.
you could bring in a buffet and they wouldn’t care because you’re a cop. i know how it works
ok, i lol’d at COP-rophage
About to go see “The Descendents”. I know Loder reviewed it here a few weeks ago, but did anyone else see it and/or would recommend it?
Yes, definitely stay off my lawn.
People still pay for movies?
*boggle*
Occunomics produces more pro-recessionary intervention.
That’s Reason “Hit & Run” for you- a day late and a dollar short.
But hey, don’t worry punks, maybe another “Iraq War Vet” will show up and get the living shit beaten out of him by a Longshoreman.
So you got that workin’ out for ya . . .
Stay away from this one guys! He sounds like one tough cookie, and smart too!
DRINK!
If this passes, feel free to Invade Canada
Is the food any good?
Minister
I didn’t care for the Human Centipede movies. I felt it insisted upon itself.
There’s no WAY Tebow beats the Pats.
NO WAY.