Preemptive: To all my friends. Yes, I know about the movie “Tracers”. No, I have nothing nice to say about it. Imagine Hollywood used a generic formula to paste your favorite thing onto the big screen; Do you think you would enjoy it? Right. It pretty much highlights all the negative aspects of Parkour, and casts Parkour in a bad light. (That’s just my opinion of course.)
Preemptive: About the movie Tracers →
Interstellar →
Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.
~ Teaser Trailer for Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Starring Matthew McConaughey
Interstellar. November.
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The Mighty Ducks →
Let’s set aside the fact that a guy who gets convicted of a DUI is put in charge of a children’s hockey team, and instead focus on the fact that this bum of a coach managed to change the lives of the Mighty Ducks, and my life as well.
Today we’re going to learn from Coach Gordon Bombay (EMILIO!!) Charlie Conway (spazz!), Adam Banks (cake-eater!), Folton Reed, GOLDBERG!, and the rest of the Mighty Ducks about leveling up ourselves and our lives.
~ Steve Kamb from, How The Mighty Ducks Will Make You A Better Person
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Star Wars machete order →
Should you watch the Star Wars movies in numerical order, or released order? Neither – Use machete order: IV, V, II, III, VI
The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order » Rod Hilton
There are two obvious options for watching the Star Wars saga.
- Release Order – Watch the films in the order they came out, recreating your experience with the films for someone new to them.
- Episode Order – Watch the films in the order George Lucas intends, starting with Episode I and going straight through to Episode VI
There are two critical flaws with both of these orders, unfortunately, that prevent either from being appropriate.
~ Rod Hilton from, The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order
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Turns out both of those options suck.
Numerical order, (as Lucas’ suggests,) wrecks the greatest movie reveal in history by spending 3 movies explaining it. And release order is also no good because… well… go. read. machete. order.
Seriously. I can’t do Rod’s article justice without quoting the whole thing.
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Europa Report →
The brilliance behind this no-nonsense approach is seen the second real problems occur. The first time you witness a member of Europa Ventures (this trip is privately funded) breakdown or let out a tiny yelp, it hits you. Hard. This is coupled by the fact that (almost) the whole movie is filmed from stationary cameras located inside the vessel.
~ IO9 from, Europa Report: At Last, a Space Thriller Worth Taking Seriously
I’m not a big fan of scary movies per se; Scary for scary’s sake? meh. But I do love me a suspenseful, scary space movie. Europa Report reminds me of Alien . . . <shudder>
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